Patents by Inventor Naoki Tanaka

Naoki Tanaka has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230385406
    Abstract: A response support technology for minimizing the impact on jobs as much as possible and enabling job continuity and prompt response can be realized. A response support device that supports a response executed according to a situation of an incident that has occurred in a monitoring target, includes an incident evaluation unit 103 that evaluates an impact of the incident on the monitoring target and an urgency level of the response against the incident; a response evaluation unit 104 that evaluates an impact level on jobs and an effectiveness level to the incident, for the response against the incident; a priority order determination unit 105 that determines a priority order of responses based on evaluation by the incident evaluation unit and evaluation by the response evaluation unit; and a display unit 106 that displays a screen including the priority order of responses determined by the priority order determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Naoki SHIMOTSUMA, Mayuko TANAKA, Tomohiro SHIGEMOTO, Nobutaka KAWAGUCHI, Katsuya NISHIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230387392
    Abstract: An electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, includes a current collector; a first electrode active material layer including a first electrode active material, arranged on a surface of the current collector; and a second electrode active material layer including a second electrode active material, arranged on a surface of the first electrode active material layer. The first electrode active material layer includes a binder in a crystallized state, and the second electrode active material layer does not include a binder. A thickness of the second electrode active material layer is 150 ?m or more, and a total of a thickness of the first electrode active material layer and the thickness of the second electrode active material layer is 250 ?m or more. A ratio of the thickness of the first electrode active material layer to the thickness of the second electrode active material layer is 0.108 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TANAKA, Kenichiro ENOKI, Yoshihiro IKEDA, Naoki MAEO, Shogo ISOMURA
  • Publication number: 20230380464
    Abstract: This bile acid adsorbing agent composed of silica particles, to which an organosilicon compound represented by general formula (1) is bonded, has the advantage that water-absorption swelling does not occur. (In formula (1), R1, R2, and R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a C1-C20 alkyl group, a vinyl group, a phenyl group, or a benzyl group, and R4 represents a group represented by general formula (2), provided that R1 and R3 may be bonded to each other to form a benzene ring.) (In formula (2), A represents a linear or branched divalent linking group which may contain a heteroatom, a urethane bond, a urea bond, a thiourethane bond, and/or a thiourea bond, R5,s each independently represent a C1-C10 alkyl group or a C6-C10 aryl group, R6,s each independently represent a C1-C10 alkyl group or a C6-C10 aryl group, and n represents an integer of 1-3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicants: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD., TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shigeki YASUDA, Tsuneo KIMURA, Munenao HIROKAMI, Masaki TANAKA, Naoki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11827379
    Abstract: The aim of the present invention is to provide a processing device and a processing method, with which it is possible to improve processing accuracy. A processing device processes a work piece which integrally includes a plate-shaped first curved-surface section and a plate-shaped planar-surface section that extends from the edge of the first curved-surface section in a bending manner. Furthermore, the processing device includes a first clamp device which includes a contact part that makes contact with the first curved-surface section, and a pressing part that presses the first curved-surface section in the direction of the contact part, and which restricts movement of the first curved-surface section in the plate thickness direction; a second clamp device which is movable in the plate thickness direction of the planar-surface section and supports the planar-surface section; and a machining device which machines the first curved-surface section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamada, Tetsunori Miyoshi, Akira Kitano, Masahiro Aoyama, Takeshi Kadomasu, Yuya Tanaka, Naoki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11820158
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member and a scanning unit including a light source, a rotatable polygonal mirror, and a sensor. The image forming apparatus includes setting of an operation in a first mode and setting of an operation in a second mode. The image forming apparatus further comprises, a surface identifying portion and a correction data storing portion configured to prestore correction data including first correction data for a first rotational speed and second correction data for a second rotational speed. Positional deviation in a main scan direction of laser light is corrected on the basis of the first correction data or the second correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Tanaka, Mitsuhiro Ohta, Takatoshi Tanaka, Fumihiko Yamaya, Naoki Matsushita, Hiroki Katayama
  • Publication number: 20230364063
    Abstract: Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for orally administering a pharmaceutical active ingredient which has a pH-dependent solubility profile, said pharmaceutical composition making it possible to achieve excellent scrubbing efficiency regardless of the pH inside the alimentary canal. Said oral pharmaceutical composition contains a pharmaceutical active ingredient which has a pH-dependent solubility profile, an inorganic or organic acid, and a hydrophilic polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Chiaki Funatani, Kenichi Kura, Naoki Kimura
  • Patent number: 11813700
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet is formed of a four-layer material formed of a brazing material, an intermediate material, a core material, and a brazing material. The intermediate material comprises Mg of 0.40 to 6.00 mass %, and has a total of contents of Mn, Cr, and Zr being 0.10 mass % or more. The core material comprises Mg of 0.20 to 2.00 mass % and comprises one or two or more of Mn of 1.80 mass % or less, Si of 1.05 mass % or less, Fe of 1.00 mass % or less, Cu of 1.20 mass % or less, Ti of 0.30 mass % or less, Zr of 0.30 mass % or less, and Cr of 0.30 mass % or less. Each of the core material and the intermediate material has a grain size of 20 to 300 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Yamayoshi, Hidetoshi Kumagai, Hirokazu Tanaka, Taketoshi Toyama, Naoki Sugimoto, Nobuhiro Honma, Shogo Yamada, Takahiro Shinoda
  • Patent number: 11810861
    Abstract: There is provided a field-effect transistor including: a gate electrode; a semiconductor layer having a source region and a drain region with the gate electrode in between; contact plugs provided on the source region and the drain region; first metals stacked on the contact plugs; and a low-dielectric constant region provided in a region between the first metals along an in-plane direction of the semiconductor layer and provided at least in a first region below bottom surfaces of the first metals along a stacking direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Saka, Daisaku Okamoto, Hideki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11808499
    Abstract: A refrigerant replacement method for a refrigeration apparatus is intended to replace a first refrigerant charged into a refrigerant circuit of the refrigeration apparatus with a second refrigerant. The second refrigerant is used together with a refrigerating machine oil having a higher additive content by percentage than another refrigerating machine oil to be used together with the first refrigerant. The method includes: a refrigerant recovery step of recovering the first refrigerant from the refrigerant circuit; an oil charging step of additionally charging a refrigerating machine oil having a predetermined additive content by percentage into the refrigerant circuit; and a refrigerant charging step of charging the second refrigerant into the refrigerant circuit. The predetermined additive content by percentage is higher than the additive content by percentage of the refrigerating machine oil to be used together with the second refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Shimozono, Tomomi Yokoyama, Ryuuji Takeuchi, Masaru Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230352545
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a chip that has a first main surface on one side and a second main surface on another side, a pn-junction portion that is formed in an interior of the chip such as to extend along the first main surface, a device region that is provided in the first main surface, a first trench structure that is formed in the first main surface such as to penetrate through the pn-junction portion and demarcates the device region in the first main surface, and a second trench structure that is formed in the first main surface such as to penetrate through the pn-junction portion and demarcates the device region in a region further to the device region side than the first trench structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiji WADA, Daisuke ICHIKAWA, Mitsuhide KORI, Naoki IZUMI, Bungo TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230331054
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a shock absorber that can use a single bracket regardless of difference in thickness of a knuckle bracket. A shock absorber according to the present invention includes: a shock absorber main body having an outer shell and a rod movably inserted into the outer shell; a knuckle bracket attached to an outer circumference on a bottom end side of the outer shell; and a bracket including a curved piece curved along a circumferential direction of an outer circumference of the outer shell and an attachment piece extending from the curved piece and to which a mounting component is attached, the curved piece including a bracket attached to the outer shell by being welded to the outer circumference of the outer shell and within a range from a top end to a bottom end of the knuckle bracket in an axial direction of the outer shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: KYB Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumasa TANAKA, Naoki YASUKOUCHI, Dawei LI
  • Publication number: 20230327424
    Abstract: A DC power distribution system for performing DC power distribution from a power distribution side base to one or more power reception side bases via a power distribution network includes measuring instruments provided at the power distribution side base and at the one or more power reception side bases, and a control device, in which the control device includes an operation unit that acquires a voltage value and a current value measured by the measuring instrument and calculates an output side power sum that is a sum of power output from the power distribution side base, a power reception side power sum that is a sum of power input to the one or more power reception side bases, and a loss sum between the power distribution side base and the one or more power reception side bases, and a control unit that detects an abnormality in the distribution network by comparing the output side power sum with a total sum of the power reception side power sum and the loss sum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Naoki HANAOKA, Hidetoshi TAKADA, Toshimitsu TANAKA, Naomichi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230321712
    Abstract: A hot press forming die includes a die main body (2) made of alloy tool steel, and a number of forming projections (3) projecting on the die main body and configured to form a forming surface (5) that comes into contact with a heated metal plate material that is an object to be formed and form a refrigerant passage through which a cooling medium flows. The die main body includes a first forming portion (14) in which the forming surface is formed to extend in a direction intersecting a forming direction of the metal plate material, a second forming portion (15) in which the forming surface is formed to extend in the forming direction, and a third forming portion (16) configured to connect the first forming portion and the second forming portion such that the forming surface becomes a convex surface. The forming projection provided on the third forming portion is formed to be a projecting strip extending between the first forming portion and the second forming portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Naoki TAKAHASHI, Hiroki ITOI, Makoto TANAKA, Hirokazu MAITA
  • Publication number: 20230314028
    Abstract: An information takeover system includes: a first board that includes a first control unit and a first storage unit storing first information about an air conditioning apparatus; and a second board that includes a second control unit and is connectable to the first board in an information exchangeable manner. The first control unit is configured to perform first control to transmit the first information to the second board with the first board and the second board connected to each other in the information exchangeable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio INOUE, Hideaki TANAKA, Naoki BITO
  • Patent number: 11776207
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shape data processing apparatus includes a processor configured to divide a three-dimensional space including a three-dimensional shape constituted by one or more forming surfaces, which are flat surfaces or curved surfaces or include both flat surfaces and curved surfaces, into plural three-dimensional regions each having a predetermined size, specify, for each of the three-dimensional regions, one or more of the forming surfaces that interfere(s) with the three-dimensional region, and redivide each of the three-dimensional regions until a size of the three-dimensional region reaches a size necessary for reproduction of a property of a portion of the three-dimensional shape expressed by one or more of the forming surfaces that interfere(s) with the three-dimensional region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomonari Takahashi, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Ryosuke Higashikata, Naoki Hiji, Taro Yokose
  • Publication number: 20230307906
    Abstract: A connection direct-current power distribution system including a first direct-current power distribution system having a first voltage range and a second direct-current power distribution system having a voltage range narrower than the first voltage range includes a switch and a converter between the first direct-current power distribution system and the second direct-current power distribution system, and the switch is caused to enter a connected state, and power from a first storage battery in the first direct-current power distribution system is supplied to the second direct-current power distribution system via the converter configured to adjust a voltage of the power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki HANAOKA, Hidetoshi TAKADA, Toshimitsu TANAKA, Naomichi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230296152
    Abstract: A damper spring having an excellent fatigue limit is provided. A damper spring according to the present embodiment includes a nitrided layer formed in an outer layer, and a core portion that is further inward than the nitrided layer. The chemical composition of the core portion consists of, in mass%, C: 0.53 to 0.59%, Si: 2.51 to 2.90%, Mn: 0.70 to 0.85%, P: 0.020% or less, 5: 0.020% or less, Cr: 1.40 to 1.70%, Mo: 0.17 to 0.53%, V: 0.23 to 0.33%, Cu: 0.050% or less, Ni: 0.050% or less, Al: 0.0050% or less, Ti: 0.050% or less, N: 0.0070% or less, and Nb: 0 to 0.020%, with the balance being Fe and impurities. In the core portion, a number density of V-based precipitates having a maximum diameter ranging from 2 to 10 nm is 500 to 8000 pieces/?m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Shinya TERAMOTO, Yutaka NEISHI, Michimasa AONO, Shuji KOZAWA, Yoichi OI, Naoki TAKABAYASHI, Junji TANAKA, Fumio TAKAHASHI, Shigekazu NISHIMOTO, Mitsuhiro KONDO, Tatsuro OCHI, Shoichi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11765304
    Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus including an obtaining unit configured to obtain print data in which in imposition image data in which one or more images are imposed in a print region, a code for identifying each image in the imposition image data is embedded; a determination unit configured to determine an ink color to be used to print the code by excluding an ink color satisfying a predetermined condition from candidates for the ink color to be used to print the code; and a print control unit configured to print the code based on the print data obtained by the obtaining unit using a plurality of nozzle arrays for the ink color determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Wakako Tanaka, Takashi Nakamura, Naoki Sumi
  • Patent number: 11759889
    Abstract: A method of welding a first metal plate and a second metal plate that is thicker than the first plate, by a laser beam. The first plate and the second plate are disposed to overlap one another in a thickness direction. In a first laser irradiation step, the laser beam is emitted at the first plate, to form an initial nugget including a front-side nugget portion in the first plate, a back-side nugget portion in the second plate and having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the front-side nugget portion, and an annular flat surface portion existing between the front-side nugget portion and the back-side nugget portion. In a subsequent laser irradiation step, the laser beam is emitted again at the initial nugget after the initial nugget is solidified, thereby increasing the diameter of the back-side nugget portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230290580
    Abstract: A separator for aluminum electrolytic capacitors, the separator being formed of natural cellulose fibers and beaten regenerated cellulose fibers, and having excellent tear strength, short-circuit resistance and impedance characteristics. The separator for aluminum electrolytic capacitors is interposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode of an aluminum electrolytic capacitor, and is formed of from 50% by mass to 90% by mass of natural cellulose fibers and from 50% by mass to 10% by mass of beaten regenerated cellulose fibers. The separator for aluminum electrolytic capacitors is configured to have a specific tear strength of from 20 to 100 mN·m2/g and a short-circuit rate of 10% or less during application of 500 V in separator dielectric breakdown testing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON KODOSHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke TANAKA, Naoki FUJIMOTO, Atsushi IGAWA